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Damn that was well done. The music really did just add to the emotional level of that episode. Ul really had a habit of picking up some weird kids. Gray's focused revenge towards Deliora and Lyon's obsession with surpassing Ul. One thing made clear is that Lyon has always been pretty messed up and nothing has really changed there. Checking out books he wasn't cleared to read or turning a village into demons. Long as it means getting to his goal of surpassing Ul he doesn't care what methods have to be used.

Ul was one amazing person though. Going that far to give Gray a future. In theory they could have run, but Ul decided they would end it there. Long as that monster existed people would be hurt and Gray would never really be able to move forward. But damn creating a leg out of ice is crazy. She didn't let minor things like loss of limb distract her from what had to be done. She gave Gray back his future and let him find the path that took him to Fairy Tail.

On a lighter note gotta love where his stripping habit came from . Seems it was out of control even while he was still a disciple. Doing that in a city then blaming it on Ul really does make people wonder what she's doing with those kids .

Just a great episode and the best from Fairy Tail yet. Not a bad place to end it either with Gray ready to do whatever it takes to stop Lyon.

It was a good episode, though i must say the censoring really effected it. The battle between Gray and Lyon in the manga features a lot more blood and what not, though here there's not even a scratch on the two, just a bit of dirt. It's especially dumb with the anime original fist fight, which would been a lot more bruises showing up.

Still that aside, i enjoy what it offered. The anime original fist fight was pretty fun, and i like the connection Gray made to his childhood fight with Natsu. Though that really stood out in this episode were the epic close up shots, wow they were good. First came from Natsu when he stopped Gray's ice shell, and then Gray did a few later in the episode. So so epic, and probably the best looking piece of animation in this series.

Well that's one way to resolve a cliff-hanger. The comic timing was unfortunately off for some of the first part. But the Natsu/Masked Man scenes had good comic timing. The cancer scene was just off though although admittedly I didn't get the joke anyway.

As an aside the ability to repair damaged structures would be pretty useful for Fairy Tail I would think. Also if the fist fight was anime original I at least wasn't able to tell. It seemed to fit seamlessly. Kid!Erza looked hilarious because she reminded me of those Know-It-All Tattle tale sort of kids. I especially liked how Lyon decided to randomly magic attack him in the middle of it.

Plus they actually brought up the fact that Lyon was killing Ul which was a very pleasant surprise. It fit with his further descent into derangehood.
The preview was hilarious if irrelevant but it seems the arc will go for at least another episode. Plus Happy's blackboard in the lecture was LOL.

Plus they actually brought up the fact that Lyon was killing Ul which was a very pleasant surprise. It fit with his further descent into derangehood.
The preview was hilarious if irrelevant but it seems the arc will go for at least another episode. Plus Happy's blackboard in the lecture was LOL.

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Well, I don't think Lyon considers what he's doing killing Ul at all... Maybe at worst he'd consider it "desecrating her remains". Lyon's quite convinced that Ul's very dead and the ice is just ice that happened to be Ul at one time.

To be honest I think Lyon's right, and it's Gray that's being overly sentimental. Ul just told him she'd "live on as the ice" to blunt Gray's pain at losing her, in my opinion.

Well, I don't think Lyon considers what he's doing killing Ul at all... Maybe at worst he'd consider it "desecrating her remains". Lyon's quite convinced that Ul's very dead and the ice is just ice that happened to be Ul at one time.

To be honest I think Lyon's right, and it's Gray that's being overly sentimental. Ul just told him she'd "live on as the ice" to blunt Gray's pain at losing her, in my opinion.

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Well the main point is that he did become more deranged after Gray bought it up. Gray obviously thinks the ice is still Ul and since he's a sympathetic main I think that the viewers are supposed to agree with him. Showing that Lyon doesn't think this way means he thinks differently from the sympathetic characters.

If Lyon was to be redeemed that would be the place to do it.
Edit: Not that your not sympathetic Quarkboy. Fighting shonen morals are pretty simplistic and they aren't necessarily right outside the authors head.
Anyway the biggest reason I made the comment is I said that Lyon was killing Ul in my episode 15 post. It really helped my pride after my Happy's lecture prediction failure.

Well. This episode just killed it for me. I tried and tried to keep my mouth shut, and tried to believe that maybe they might turn it around, but who am I kidding. I looked foward to this arc and this fight, but it can't even beat out the manga.

I just wish they would end it, and hopefully picked up in the future by someone else. I just, just... don't know anymore.

This is the BEST episode ever!!!! I've never seen a fight in Fairy Tail so fluid.... with so much motion. *teary* (I know, though it's nothing compared to better done anime, but still)

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It's fun watching Natsu run away and doing crazy stuff. I really like his randomness. Gray's ice-make creations are wonderful to behold. I was really surprised with the huge cage and the gigantic cannon.

But I suppose the real highlight of this episode (besides the fluidity of fights) is little Ezra! She looks so serious and lovely. oh, and I didn't know that Ezra, Gray and Natsu all joined the guild when they were young.

As for Lucy, I'm getting tired to her calling out Cancer all the time.....

right, and I didn't like the abrupt cutting off of music at the start of the episode. I think they cut it off three times or something. Better just not put any music in? It was really distracting.

This episode was very good imo, but the censorship did all the serious damage it is meant to prevent! I'm fine with Gray being penetrated by Leon (don' get any weird thoughts) and not bleeding a drop, but getting bitten by the sharp fangs of an ice dragon and not even having red marks of that off-screen bleeding!? Seriously....
Other than that, the rest of the episode was well-made, I enjoyed fights, flashbacks, music and ofc, ice rocket

I wouldn't say that, if you look at bleach is started as cult and full of gore, but later on rib-smashing was reduced to side burns...while one piece has been bloody whenever necessary right off the bat up till now. Maybe it's a studio thing, iunno.

I think with it being a fairly new anime (although I understand an ongoing manga storyline) the producers of FT are wary of putting blood & broken bones into the mix at this moment in time.

But once this anime gets established we should see the censorship taken down a notch or two.

Look at Sasuke, he had half his chest missing a few episodes back!

It really has nothing to do with the fact that it's a new anime. The studio went with the younger crowd. It's usually up to the director or series director to decide. It was a bad idea to go that route though in my opinion.

The anime shouldn't lose any of it's censorship. Censorship usually goes up rather than go down. I think they meant to censor it this much, and I think they're going to keep it that way.

Naruto has always had blood, and it's been pretty good with the censorship. It's just that when the special animated episodes happen, there seems to be more blood to go along with the epicness.

Well that was a pretty good one. Figures that Natsu would just jump into iced shell to stop Gray. I suppose he's showing that he cares in Natsu's own way . True that dying isn't really settling it since at best you take them with you so it's more of a draw. At least it got Gray to keep on going. Better to fight with everything he has rather than give up like that.

Too bad that the ceremony continued. Guess Natsu should have just beaten up that idiot instead of letting him damage himself a couple episodes back. They needed to take down everyone to prevent Deliora from being brought back and sadly they failed.

Maybe Gray is being sentimental, but I don't think it's wrong for him to view the ice the way he does. Who is to say that Ul's spirit isn't in that ice? Maybe it's like Lyon wants to believe and it's just her remains, but either way he had to be stopped. He and those villagers deserve all the damage they get. Doing the horrible things they've done to the village, but also trying to release a monster that there is no guarantee they can stop. Nice they have faith in Lyon and all, but they are all being blinded by vengeance. You'd think there would be some gratitude for the one who stopped Deliora. Sure it isn't technically dead, but it's good as dead if it stays in that ice forever.

No surprise Gray just snapped on Lyon here. Putting aside whether Ul is 'alive' or not he has clearly gone too far. Going against Ul's wishes, hopes, and taking away from her sacrifice. He was clearly always a little twisted, but his obsession has completely blinded him. Lyon hasn't changed at all from that kid who could only focus on Ul. Gray took the advice and moved forward. Of course if he could save Ul he would have, but there was no way to do it. Melting the ice won't bring her back only negate what she tried to do. Anyways just loved that angry punch from Gray .

I'm surprised that no one's brought this up, but the fanservice aspect is quite blatant. Granted, there isn't any pantyshot, but there's plenty of cleavage shots and sexual harassment to go around, not to mention Gray stripping in every episode.